Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Shawn G. Skelly stressed equitable military hiring practices as crucial to national security at a Jan. 13 event. Rebecca D. Patterson, the ...

Rebecca Bill Chavez has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service as deputy assistant secretary of defense for policy (Western hemisphere affairs), Washington, D.C.

20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool) He previously served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Defense Continuity and Mission Assurance and as the deputy assistant ...

Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense ... include Guard troops there under state National Guard deployments.

That total does not include Guard troops there under ... Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense, and three ...

had sought to keep his condition and the fact that he had been incapacitated while under general anesthesia secret from President Joe Biden and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks. Robert ...